They measure roughly six and eight metres across, modest in scale but significant in what they once represented: the kind of early settlement remains found across the Iveragh Peninsula, where circular huts built from dry-laid stone were a common feature of early medieval and prehistoric habitation.

The foundations themselves are gone. Donaldson, writing in 1956, recorded that they were quarried away in the early 1920s to provide material for the construction of a nearby waterworks. It is a quietly dispiriting fate, and not an uncommon one. Infrastructure projects of that era frequently consumed whatever stone lay close to hand, and ancient structures offered a ready supply. What remained, as noted by Henry in 1957, were two further circular huts within the enclosure that could be matched to the surviving mounds, their outlines still legible as soft rises in the ground even after the dressed stone had been taken. The enclosure itself, within which these huts once stood, is a defining feature of this kind of early Irish settlement, a roughly circular boundary, usually of earthen bank or stone wall, that defined a domestic or agricultural space.